Principal Product Manager

Summary

Join Thoughtworks as a Principal Product Manager and play a pivotal role in shaping impactful digital products. You will develop a deep understanding of client needs, providing advisory services and capability uplift. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build shared product visions and define strategies. Cultivate strong client relationships, ensuring ongoing buy-in and support. Manage product roadmaps, prioritize initiatives, and track industry trends. Drive the product development lifecycle using agile methodologies, constantly evaluating solutions and iterating based on feedback. Contribute to Thoughtworks' growth by actively participating in recruiting, mentorship, and community building.

Requirements

• Have a track record of delivering successful products to market
• Have a deep understanding of user research and design methods and processes
• Passion and perseverance for creating best-in-class software products which deliver an outstanding customer experience
• Solid understanding of agile software development practices and product maintenance/support processes
• Enjoy leveraging data to improve one's understanding of user needs, product performance and value created for the customer
• Work at company, portfolio and product level — defining and executing a strategy, shaping a vision and translating it into a roadmap with clear business and customer value-based measures of success
• Lead with customer experience, putting customers/users and their needs at the heart of product development
• Be able to clearly define a value proposition and seamlessly articulate it, generating support and buy-in from all relevant stakeholders
• Define and successfully execute a customer experience strategy across multiple products and channels
• Enjoy collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to determine the best product-market fit and define a product roadmap
• Naturally create an effective collaboration between Thoughtworks and client teams by encouraging open communication and advocating for shared outcomes
• Evangelize product thinking, leveraging your extensive expertise to advise stakeholders, coach product teams, introduce best practices, identify roadblocks and generate solutions for resolving them quickly
• Have a bias for action, and can break down complex problems into tangible steps
• Love facilitating workshops with stakeholders
• Enjoy motivating committed, smart people to do the best work of their careers

Responsibilities

• Develop an understanding of client problems, provide advisory services and capability uplift
• Collaborate with your team and stakeholders to think big and imagine future solutions that solve the customer's problems and deliver value for your client's business
• Build a shared product vision and then shape, define and communicate short and long-term strategies
• Cultivate meaningful relationships with client stakeholders, bridging technical and business worlds and ensuring ongoing buy-in and support
• Create and manage the product or portfolio roadmap: effectively prioritize business opportunities from a wide range of inputs, understand and prioritize this work so your team is always working on the most impactful initiatives
• Understand how the product contributes to the client's vision, business strategy and goals
• Track industry trends and the competitive landscape, undertake formative research and data analysis and generate insights
• Constantly evaluate if your solutions have solved the customer problem and delivered on the business opportunity, through quantitative and qualitative measures
• Drive the overall product development lifecycle, utilizing lean and agile approaches to pilot products quickly, get feedback, iterate, and rapidly launch roadmap increments that deliver undeniable value
• Contribute to the growth and scale of our evolving business through taking an active part in recruiting, community building, mentorship and driving best practices

Benefits

• There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys
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